Based on the play by Humphrey Pearson. Originally shot in 2-col. Technicolor. DVD release of the 1929 motion picture. "This disc is expected to play back in DVD video "play only" devices, and may not play back in other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives."--Container. Arthur Lake, Betty Compson, Joe E. Brown, Sally O'Neil, William Bakewell, Louise Fazenda, Sam Hardy, Harry Gribbon, Lee Moran, Wheeler Oakman, Fairbanks twins, Purnell B. Pratt, Thomas Jefferson, Ethel Waters, Otto Hoffman, Henry Fink, Josephine Houston.
Summary:
"Tonight will be a hit ... or tomorrow will be a bust! ... backstage musicals became one of the staples of the era and amid all the voh-de-oh-doing and tap-tapping came this movie that Time called 'the most interesting of its type to date.' Adding to the interest: a narrative structure that cuts between the onstage production of a make-or-break show and the in-the-wings scrambling to mount it -- and to find out who heisted the night's gate receipts; ..."--Container.
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